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...this week’s New Republic, Jonathan Chait brilliantly reveals a pattern too long ignored: John Kerry, the unprincipled flip-flopper of 2004, bears an uncanny resemblance to Al Gore, the unprincipled flip-flopper of 2000, and Bill Clinton, the unprincipled flip-flopper of 1992. What a coincidence that every Democrat who’s run against a member of the Bush family shares the same crippling character flaw...
...either with us or you are with the terrorists.” And somehow when Kerry changes his mind—for example, on just which failure of this president’s foreign policy is worth criticizing most—it is evidence of a disqualifying pattern of vacillation and political expediency...
...radius of Out-of-Town News. A fifth, Sovereign Bank, is “Coming Soon.” This wouldn’t be so lamentable were it an isolated incident. But, as we well know, it’s part of a much more pernicious and destructive pattern: the de-Harvardization of Harvard Square...
...worked out if you stay." Marian Sweeney is peeved that Beach gave so little notice. "You don't make a move like that in a week," she alleges. "He had been accepted by the Bishop of Bolivia before he announced he was leaving. He kept us in a holding pattern, saying Be patient and pray. And then he left. We felt deceived...
...what went wrong four years before. This month alone, Bush’s campaign found a new way to combine public and party funding to circumvent the law restricting its spending, forced Kerry (for the hundredth time) to step on his own message and defend a “pattern of flip-flops,” and produced the single most memorable advertisement of the year—footage of Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, and sailing “whichever way the wind blows” on the issues...